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Best scary, horror, or otherwise Halloween-themed games!

Okay, so this in inspired by TomxJ's post in another thread. I think it would be cool to have a thread listing the best options available for scary, horror, or just simply Halloween-based games, now that we are into October. I for one am a fan of the genre, but have probably missed out on many titles over the years.

This can include both full games and mods, but if you list a lesser-known mod, please specify the game for which it is a mod.

Silent Hill 2 and 3 (I'm not sure about 4) had PC versions. ObsCure was decent game with co-op features. White Day is pretty good, though it's Korean and prone to crashing/bugging out badly as well as having a few obscure puzzles and partially annoying design, but if you liked Amnesia you should be able to enjoy White Day as well. For point and clicks, Darkness Within 1 is really, really good, one of the best Lovecraft-themed horror games I've played. The second is not bad, but I didn't find it quite as good. Condemned: Criminal Origins is also very very good, and Call of Cthulhu: DCotE is great (though after acquiring the gun it goes downhill).

As for mods, Grey was okay, and Underhell: Prologue, what little I played it, seemed nice. Afraid of Monsters is brilliant. I'd also recommend Nightmare House 2. All of these are Half-Life 2 mods IIRC.

White Day is pretty good, though it's Korean and prone to crashing/bugging out badly as well as having a few obscure puzzles and partially annoying design, but if you liked Amnesia you should be able to enjoy White Day as well.

Anyway to get my hands on this? I've looked around a bit but couldn't find it anywhere. Or am I going to have to resort to illegal means?

Not PC, but I suppose you could resort to emulation? Amnesia is for me, without a doubt, the greatest horror game I've played on the PC, but by far, the scariest game I've ever played, no contest whatsoever, was Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly (known as Project Zero 2 on Europe) on the PlayStation 2.
Noone understands psychological horror like the Japanese. Except Capcom.